graduate school | Marginalia

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At the Graduate Preview Day the other week, someone asked why one should go to graduate school..

For me it happened near the end of undergrad, when I told my professor I wanted to teach writing. He urged me to get my MA. He said, “..

As a father, I have many distractions, many things that can keep me from being productive as a grad student. I don’t know how many tim..

That police officer’s perception of time is enviable, because right now time is going by rea..

OK. It’s totally thesis time. Us second-year students in the Creative Writing – Poetry MFA program just got our thesis adviser assignm..

I was thinking about what my next blog topic should be whilst doing the shopping at Trader Joe’s. As I picked up my usual box of Balan..

Although I remain cheerful at this point with a very rough draft of my thesis nearing completion, the more I research and write, the m..

September is an insane month. No getting around it. Whether you’re in your first year of grad school or your second, the first month o..